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The latest questions and answers, from members following A Hunger Artist at eNotes.Fri, 5 Jun 2015 21:47:21 PSTen-usThis is a very interesting question. The starting point for an answer is...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/other-people-hunger-artist-franz-kafka-480694
This is a very interesting question. The starting point for an answer is the difference between fiction and real life. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka is not a piece of journalism, but instead a work of imagination. Many literary works -- or movies or video games -- describe characters doing things that people would not (or could not) do in real life. That is part of what makes literature valuable, in that it allows us to explore things with...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/other-people-hunger-artist-franz-kafka-480694Fri, 5 Jun 2015 21:47:21 PSTWhat drives someone to do strange things like the protagonist of A...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/other-people-hunger-artist-franz-kafka-480694
What drives someone to do strange things like the protagonist of A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka? Do any people do anything similar to the hunger artist today?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/other-people-hunger-artist-franz-kafka-480694#1June 5, 2015, 9:17 pm PSTIn the short stories, "Bartleby the Scrivener," "A Hunger Artist," and...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/short-stories-bartleby-scrivener-hunger-artist-472800
In the short stories, "Bartleby the Scrivener," "A Hunger Artist," and "Borges and I," what is the relationship between all of them?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/short-stories-bartleby-scrivener-hunger-artist-472800November 28, 2014, 11:27 pm PSTThe tone of Franz Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" is so uncanny and at the...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/poem-hunger-artist-how-would-you-characterize-469589
The tone of Franz Kafka's "A Hunger Artist" is so uncanny and at the same time so matter-of-fact that critics have invented a special name for it. The tone of this story is "Kafkaesque." It is very similar to the tone of some of his other stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" and "The Penal Colony." Reading a Kafkaesque story is like having a bad dream from which it seems impossible to wake up. Something horrible and nearly but not quite...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/poem-hunger-artist-how-would-you-characterize-469589Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:10:18 PSTOverall, the tone of this story can be characterized as fairly detached...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/poem-hunger-artist-how-would-you-characterize-469589
Overall, the tone of this story can be characterized as fairly detached and unemotional. The story is told in limited third person narration, that is to say it stands outside of the characters and events it describes while also giving us the intimate thoughts and feelings of one character. This impersonal narrator relates the rather absurd story of the hunger artist in matter-of-fact terms. This is evident from the very beginning with the...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/poem-hunger-artist-how-would-you-characterize-469589#2Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:17:47 PSTin "A Hunger Artist", how would you characterize this story's tone?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/poem-hunger-artist-how-would-you-characterize-469589
in "A Hunger Artist", how would you characterize this story's tone?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/poem-hunger-artist-how-would-you-characterize-469589#3June 9, 2014, 8:06 pm PSTI think that one reason why the artist in Kafka's story has to be a...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/suggest-reasons-kafkas-selection-an-expert-fasting-464879
I think that one reason why the artist in Kafka's story has to be a hunger artist is to reflect the condition of alienation that drives his art. Unlike a priest, who recognizes that there is a transcendent force in the divine, and the singer, who can recognize that there is a transcendent force in their song talents, the hunger artist is an artist because of the alienation he experiences. He rejects what the world presents and thus self-...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/suggest-reasons-kafkas-selection-an-expert-fasting-464879Sat, 30 Nov 2013 12:18:54 PSTSuggest reasons for Kafka's selection of an expert in fasting (rather...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/suggest-reasons-kafkas-selection-an-expert-fasting-464879
Suggest reasons for Kafka's selection of an expert in fasting (rather than a priest or singer) as the central figure in the story.http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/suggest-reasons-kafkas-selection-an-expert-fasting-464879#4November 30, 2013, 8:24 am PSTThe hunger artist doesn't want to eat food at all, and finds fasting...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/examine-scene-where-impresario-shows-public-459452
The hunger artist doesn't want to eat food at all, and finds fasting incredibly easy. However, his audience doesn't believe him and people either call him dishonest or take pity on him and try to sneak food to him. Both of these reactions cause the hunger artist to become frustrated and depressed. The impresario knows full well that the hunger artist can fast for a long time, but he limits the fasts to only forty days at a time because the...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/examine-scene-where-impresario-shows-public-459452Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:19:59 PSTExamine the scene where the impresario shows the public photographs of...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/examine-scene-where-impresario-shows-public-459452
Examine the scene where the impresario shows the public photographs of the hunger artist. What is the basis for his actions and why does this upset the hunger artist so much?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/examine-scene-where-impresario-shows-public-459452#5October 13, 2013, 11:41 pm PSTI think that some of the Postcolonial elements in Kafka's work has to...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-post-colonials-hunger-artist-303883
I think that some of the Postcolonial elements in Kafka's work has to relate to how the artist is perceived by the public and how he perceives himself. There is a sizeable gap between both sets of perceptions. The Hunger Artist is fundamentally misunderstood by the public. He believes that the public lacks the full appreciation of his art and the sacrifices made for it. In the same sense, there is a gap between the relationship between...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-post-colonials-hunger-artist-303883Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:35:30 PSTWhat are the Postcolonial elements in A Hunger Artist?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-post-colonials-hunger-artist-303883
What are the Postcolonial elements in A Hunger Artist?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-post-colonials-hunger-artist-303883#6December 25, 2011, 11:36 pm PSTThe concept of a "hunger artist" is real and something that does exist....http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/did-hunger-artists-really-exist-292176
The concept of a "hunger artist" is real and something that does exist. This was the realm of professional fasting, whereby individuals fasted and there was a public fascination with it. Yet, I think that Kafka is striving to make a larger statement about how the artist can become trapped with the public voyeurism into the creation of their art. In this sense, Kafka is making the argument that there is a certain trapping of fame and this is...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/did-hunger-artists-really-exist-292176Sun, 6 Nov 2011 06:53:03 PSTDid "hunger artists" really exist?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/did-hunger-artists-really-exist-292176
Did "hunger artists" really exist?http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/did-hunger-artists-really-exist-292176#7November 6, 2011, 3:54 am PSTYour question seems to point towards the importance placed on the...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-enveloping-action-story-any-238849
Your question seems to point towards the importance placed on the passing of the times and how what is in vogue one moment becomes anachronistic the next moment. Note how this is referenced from the very beginning of the story: During these last decades the interest in professional fasting has markedly diminished. It used to pay very well to stage such great performances under one's own management, but today that is quite impossible. We live...http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-enveloping-action-story-any-238849Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:40:07 PST